Aeon1d
We need raw awe
In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative wonder of life ...
Aeon4d
Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement
Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement ...
Aeon2d
To change the way you see the Moon, view it from the Sun’s perspective
Switch from the Moon’s orbit of Earth to its trajectory around the Sun, and you shift your entire view of our solar system ...
Aeon10d
GPS tracking reveals stunning insights into the patterns of migratory birds
What GPS tracking says about why the common whimbrel stops at a small spit of sand in South Carolina on its migratory route ...
Aeon11d
Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory
Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory ...
Aeon9d
India’s ongoing subjugation of Kashmir holds portentous lessons about the nature of contemporary colonialism
Even as Nehru proclaimed the moral superiority of India for taking a stance against colonialism in all forms, he oversaw India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir. In Kashmir, Nehru said, ‘democracy and ...
Aeon9d
The stream-of-consciousness thoughts and memories that emerge while cooking a meal
The sensations of cooking stir up complicated questions about the relationship between a daughter and her mother ...
Aeon12d
Can providing humanitarian aid be illegal? A troubling case from the US-Mexico border
Arrested for supplying water to migrants from Mexico, an aid worker’s trial challenges the boundary between law and morality ...
Aeon3d
When a burial for slave trade victims is unearthed, a small island faces a reckoning
A small and exceptionally remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the British overseas territory of St Helena is famed for being the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last exile and death. However, as ...
Aeon8d
The city of wisdom
C P Snow’s lecture ‘The Two Cultures’ (1959) argued that the perceived divide between scientists and literary scholars is narrower than commonly believed. They both fundamentally seek to understand ...